Giuseppe Gerinoni-Gueri-was born in Bergamo with Clusonese origins. Just 12 years old he was directed to the artistic world by his father Luigi, a skilled sculptor and refined chiseler, who learned the secrets of embossing in the workshop of his brother-in-law Attilio Nani. From Clusone they moved to Via Torretta in Bergamo, which soon became a crossroads for sculptors such as Costante Coter and Giacomo Manzù. 

His father's workshop was followed by apprenticeship in the studios of Costante Coter and Piero Brolis; there was then attendance at sculpture courses at the Accademia Carrara under the direction of Elia Ajolfi.

 

Gueri's art has always dialogued with space, in a perfect balance of forms not shapes. An essential evidence this, which stands out in the sculptural portrait of the great Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, of such vigorous structural lightness that it combines strength and grace, muscular tension and vibrant harmony in the form of dance. 

An artist from Bergamo who has transcribed, in bronze and on slabs, a piece of twentieth-century history, between tradition that comes from afar and contemporaneity that looks far